EAN, or EAN13, stands for International Article Number (originally European Article Number). It is an extension of the UPC codes and you'll find them as barcodes on most everyday products. Sometimes the barcode is also called GTIN or GTIN13 (Global Trade Identifier).

The EAN includes the country of origin, the manufacturer and a product number. In addition to that it includes a checksum.

When you only look at the barcode, you can't easily see which product it belongs to. Thus, this website provides a reverse EAN lookup, that tells you the product the EAN code belongs to.

Currently the database includes over 292.634.000 entries, that is huge, but still only a subset of all the EANs ever issued.

For all automated queries, please use the XML / JSON API. You can use the API to integrate our database into your own applications. (some easy examples)

Due to the enormous amount of bots and scrapers, we have to limit the numbers of searches users can make on this website. To make more searches, you have to sign up for an account.

Get an account and use our Excel assistant to upload a list of EAN codes and download the lookup results.

Yes, you can use a professional barcode scanner and feed us the scanned barcodes through the API or in an Excel sheet to look up the products in our database. You can also use your smartphone or webcam to scan barcodes online. On Linux, you can use zbarcam-qt or BarcodeScanner to scan and look up barcodes.

When you get an account you can select which part of the database you want to download. Please refrain from spidering the public website. Access will be blocked completely for excessive usage.

All registered users may submit lists with barcodes that are missing in our database for free as Excel sheet or CVS file.